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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.2.29.pr-38.2.29.1

Manumission under Trust and Patronal Rights

Passage 5965 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section regulates the legal relationship between a freedman manumitted under a trust and their manumitter, and defines an exception when a testator bequeathes a slave to his son and requests their manumission.

[MARCIANUS libro nono institutionum. ] §38.2.29.prQui ex causa fideicommissi manumittitur, est quidem libertus manumissoris et tam contra tabulas quam ab intestato ad bona eius uenire potest quasi patronus: sed operas ei imponere non potest nec impositas ab eo petere. §38.2.29.1Sed si defunctus filio suo legauit seruum et rogauit, ut eum manumittat, ea mente, ut plenum ius patroni habeat, defendendum est posse eum operas iure imponere.
[MARCIANUS, in the ninth book of Institutes.]\n\nA person who is manumitted by virtue of a fideicommissum is indeed the freedman of the manumitter, and can succeed to his estate as if he were a patron, both against the will and on intestacy; but the manumitter cannot impose services upon him, nor demand from him services already imposed.\n\nBut if the deceased bequeathed a slave to his son and requested him to manumit the slave, with the intention that the son should have the full right of a patron, it must be maintained that the son can legally impose services.

Notes

  1. §38.2.29.primpositas — A perfect passive participle in the feminine accusative plural, modifying the noun `operas` from the preceding clause. It functions as the object of the infinitive, meaning "services [already] imposed".
  2. §38.2.29.1defendendum est posse eum — The impersonal passive periphrastic construction `defendendum est` ("it must be maintained") governs the accusative and infinitive clause `posse eum ... imponere`, in which the subject accusative `eum` refers to the son.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.2.29.pr-38.2.29.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.2.29.pr-38.2.29.1

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